Randy Susan Meyers

Randy Susan Meyers is an American novelist, born and raised in Brooklyn, New York, now based in Boston, where she teaches writing seminars at Grub Street Writers' Center. Before turning to fiction full time, she spent more than twenty years working with domestic-violence victims, batterers and at-risk youth as assistant director of a Boston nonprofit -- work that directly shaped her debut novel, The Murderer's Daughters, drawn in part from her own upbringing in a household with an abusive father. Her subsequent novels, including The Comfort of Lies, Accidents of Marriage, The Widow of Wall Street and Waisted, have been translated into twenty-seven languages, with several named 'Must Read Fiction' by the Massachusetts Center for the Book and shortlisted for the Massachusetts Book Award. In this catalogue she appears as M.J. Rose's co-author on The Fashion Orphans (2022), a contemporary novel about two estranged half-sisters who inherit their late mother's vintage Chanel collection -- a departure from both authors' more typically historical registers, and Meyers's only credit in Rose's bibliography.